I drank the 2002 Yong Pin Hao sample just now (6g in a 80ml pot). The flavor is... interesting, it had a tamer version of flavors that I'd associate with younger sheng (specifically the sweetness) without much of what I'd expect from other Yi wu sheng from this age (Golden Unicorn from Bana or the Zipin from Wisteria). Very curious now since I also do have a 2004 sample to compare this with too, so I guess I'm now looking forward to trying this next.

The tea also lasted quite a bit, going through over ten infusions before having to have it infuse for many minutes at a time. Decent energy too.

Keiki wrote:I also have that cake and I am drinking it today... I also found that it has chaqi, it was more noticeable on an empty stomach sometimes I would feel a pleasant numbness after drinking this. I became quite fond of its taste after a while but I didn't like it in the beginning. Thanks for your tasting notes Puerhking, as a newbie I would describe it as hay and maybe "woody" lol

LYH is labeled as tuition tea in China online tea community. This just shows it doesn't matter what others says. The truth is in your own taste and experience. As long as you enjoyed it, worth the money spent, it's good tea.

Relative few puerh drinkers in China gave negative feedback about LYH before 2010. In recent years there are a lot more negative feedback. I don't know if it's because of their tea of recent years or other reasons. But I haven't got any free LYH samples yet

LYH seemed to get tuition tea label in the West about 2008. Some of the older teas, like certain commemorative bricks were well received, but some of the later tea were mercilessly mocked, particularly for the cheesy names.

shah82 wrote:LYH seemed to get tuition tea label in the West about 2008. Some of the older teas, like certain commemorative bricks were well received, but some of the later tea were mercilessly mocked, particularly for the cheesy names.

Their tea before 2006 were decent. Recall they have a few good ones in 2003-2004. But from 2006 they start to mess up. I have a few 2006-2008 ones, they weren't good for the price (even though cheap). Some of the fake papers tasted even better.

But every now and then. even tuition tea makers make nice tea, just that people stopped trying them, so it goes on unknown.

gingkoseto wrote:Relative few puerh drinkers in China gave negative feedback about LYH before 2010. In recent years there are a lot more negative feedback. I don't know if it's because of their tea of recent years or other reasons. But I haven't got any free LYH samples yet

They started having inferior materials in between. The surface always look good, then you gets to the middle Typical tuition tea practices.

I have a few of their 06-08 tea, you can see how much they try to "mislead" consumer each year difference

The taste wise, it's drinkable, but more bland. You can get better tea elsewhere with the same money.

I had a sample of this from YS and was very impressed by it. Then I ordered a cake on TB and this cake has been sitting my house for sometime till couple of days ago. I don't know what I made of that but certainly I'm not going to order another cake.

600 rmb for a 2006 gushu cake is very good value for money when you compare with the latest Dayi offerings. I really don't think this is a fake as it does taste like a Douji's cake.

However, one of two things I'm not very sure. It is not as interesting as the YS sample and on the whole this cake tastes a lot milder than the sample. I wonder if this due to different storage environment. Another thing is that the soup colour is a lot lighter than I would expect from a 7 year old cake even the spent leaves do show it has been aged for some years. Also I find the texture a bit thin. I ask myself would this cake age gracefully?

apache wrote:However, one of two things I'm not very sure. It is not as interesting as the YS sample and on the whole this cake tastes a lot milder than the sample. I wonder if this due to different storage environment. Another thing is that the soup colour is a lot lighter than I would expect from a 7 year old cake even the spent leaves do show it has been aged for some years. Also I find the texture a bit thin. I ask myself would this cake age gracefully?

Guangzhou seller? If it is, then it's like that. The aroma seems to have dissolved too fast. I recently had mengku 2007 spring, that tasted flat, even though the leafs and brew seems to aged well. The leafs looked to be from spring too, but it just didn't have the taste of normal spring puerh liveliness.

edit: oh ya, I ended up using 100 Celsius water to bring out extra flavor/aroma from that mengku

The brew color seems to be slightly lighter for Guangzhou stored. Maybe the place they stored had some anti-humidity, but the tea is placed in places where it's too airy.